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Frank Zappa (Photo: Newsweek)

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
- Frank Zappa

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- Havelock Ellis

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
- Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010

Never fight an inanimate object.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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